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Honored Contributor>>Hello All,
>> >>I'm new to Altera and uClinux.. Welcome http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif >>I have a Cyclone1 dev. board.. and succeeded in installing uClinux 1.4.. >> >>but i have some questions,, please help >> >> >>1: When i use the flash programmer with the Linux included HW .. a counter starts on the >>7Segments display.. what is this ?? isnt linux free..?? Do not worry! That's just a counter which starts to run as an indication that the kernel runs. You can disable it in the kernel if you dislike it. >>2-I want to compile MPLAYER (video player) on it .. bt before the "make" process .. i must run the "./configure" to check some system's flags.. could this be done on the NIOSII IDE ?? how ? You'd want the toolchain build by Hippo to do serieus cross-compilation under Linux. The NiosII IDE is very limited and slow. >>3- What libraries must i include in the uClinux installation to run the MPLAYER correctly ?? I'm not sure what you like to do with mplayer, but as I use on my workstation it displays images on a framebuffer device.... I think you should start off with getting a "video-card" for the NiosII (There are frame-buffer cards available from Altera IIRC) and get a small X-server running before you even start to think about mplayer (unless you want to watch a movie over the serial console with aalib http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif ). >>4- Did any1 here managed to decode video streams using Cyclone1 ?? is it capable ?? Dunno, sorry >>Thanks a lot .. >> >>Yours, >>Tarek. http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif You've got to remember that a FPGA with a NIOSII is not a workstation! Your welcome http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif
